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The Dr. and Mrs. Walter Feder Memorial West Orange Eruv is dedicated by Roz Feder Lipsky and Marvin Lipsky in memory of Roz’s parents a’h.

Dr. Walter Feder a’h received semicha from Yeshiva University and was a practicing cardiologist in Brooklyn. He established the CCU at Maimonides Medical Center, where he was Chairman of Cardiology for many years before becoming an attending physician there. Mrs. Cecile Salwen Feder a’h was the first Head of Stern College, and later a Mathematics Professor at Brooklyn College They were involved in many Jewish organizations and causes, including Soviet Jewry, the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and others. They each benefited from the wonderful Bikur Cholim of the West Orange and Livingston communities when they stayed in area health care facilities. The family is dedicating the Eruv with Hakarat Hatov for the communities’ wonderful chesed, and to pay it forward for those who will need these facilities in the future. May their neshamot have an aliya.

The West Orange Eruv was first erected on April 15, 1983 under the leadership of Rabbi Alvin M. Marcus, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation AABJ&D, and Rabbi Hillel Horowitz, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel, with the halakhic guidance of Rabbi Shimon Eider Z”L of Lakewood, NJ.

The Eruv is currently under the Rabbinic Authority of Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler of Congregation AABJ&D and Rabbi Mark Spivak of Congregation Ohr Torah. The Eruv is maintained and checked weekly by Reuven Meir Herrera ( 405 641-8749) . For queries, comments, or to volunteer in any capacity, please contact info@westorangeeruv.org or (973) 736-1407 Ext. 216.

Currently, as of 3/9/2018 , the Eruv hotline is down. We are working on fixing it ASAP.

Once the Eruv hotline is fixed you may check the Eruv status by dialing the West Orange Eruv Hotline at (973) 736-1407 Ext. 234 on Friday afternoon. Additionally, if the eruv has been checked and is functional for Shabbat there will be an “E” hanging from the sign of Congregation AABJ&D, 700 Pleasant Valley Way. You may also sign up for e-mail alerts through our website by clicking here.

Website last update: 3/9/2018 by Reuven Meir Herrera

Eruv is up

The Eruv is up!!
The eruv EXTENSION is UP.
Last checked by Rabbi Shotkin on Friday 4/8/2020

Passover

Currently the eruv hotline isn't working. For updates, please check the eruv website or call Rabbi Micah Shotkin at 973-330-6355

REMEMBER!! The letter "E" outside the AABJ&D shul
means the eruv is up. If the "E" is not there, the eruv is down.